I got a job with a law firm in Portland after a couple of years with Senator Muskie. But by then, my interest in politics had been sparked, through meeting Senator Muskie, through seeing what he did.
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A Swimmer Named Kennedy
When someone is a person of questionable integrity
and they have committed dubious acts in their past
many years of civil service to society and then they suddenly are befallen
with a fatal disease; (other than Liberalism….which is only a mental disorder)
why is it then that we always proceed to elevate
these immoral people to a higher level of respectability?
With no marginal reason ever given for their existence….
In memory of Mary Jo Kopechne (July 26,1940 – July 18,1969)
Who was left by United States Senator Ted Kennedy to drown in his car
after he drove it off of a bridge and into the water below; while intoxicated after a party. Senator Kennedy was married at the time of the accident and did not report the accident until much later that morning.
Senator Kennedy has never to this day claimed any responsibility for his actions.
Senator Kennedy has been recently diagnosed with brain cancer, and that is tragic,
but it doesn’t change his questionable character.
2008 © TS
poem by Ted Sheridan
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I'm disappointed that Senator DeWine once again chose to go along with his party leaders and their big corporate lobbyist supporters. Ohio deserves a Senator who will be more than a rubber stamp.
quote by Sherrod Brown
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You have the God-given right to kick the government around - don't hesitate to do so.
quote by Edmund S. Muskie
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Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park.
quote by Edmund S. Muskie
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It's funny. Of all the jobs I've been ambitious for, this is one that never crossed my mind.
quote by Edmund S. Muskie
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Senator, I started my life in a house without water or electricity. So I don't cede to you the high moral ground of not knowing what life is like in a ditch. to Senator Robert Byrd at a budget hearing
quote by Paul O'Neill
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In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well.
quote by Edmund S. Muskie
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I actually defeated an incumbent Republican senator who was part of the Jesse Helm's political machine in North Carolina, the result of which is I'm now the senior senator from North Carolina instead of Jesse Helms, which is a very good thing for this country.
quote by John Edwards
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Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy, I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy.
quote by Lloyd Bentsen
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No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.
quote by Henry B. Adams
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As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in Missouri for 8 years.
In his years in Washington, Senator Kerry has been one vote of a hundred in the United States Senate - and fortunately on matters of national security he was very often in the minority.
quote by Dick Cheney
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Napoleon Complex
Born with silver spoon
Coddled, pampered, spoiled
Small in stature
Never filled his father’s shoes
An underachiever
Misogynist, womanizer
Abused father’s influence for gain
Tainted “Maverick”, a failed top gun
Found a niche in politics
Elected Senator
Aspired to president
Aspired to be dictator
Failed at both
poem by Ray Lucero
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Can you, in a million years, imagine another female senator - Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Claire McCaskill - reacting to being called 'ma'am' like Barbara Boxer did? This is the kind of sanctimonious self-absorption on the modern left that makes my teeth itch.
quote by Mark Davis
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To Sir Henry Vane the Younger
Vane, young in years, but in sage counsel old,
Than whom a better senator ne’er held
The helm of Rome, when gowns, not arms, repelled
The fierce Epirot and the African bold,
Whether to settle peace, or to unfold
The drift of hollow states hard to be spelled;
Then to advise how war may best, upheld,
Move by her two main nerves, iron and gold,
In all her equipage; besides, to know
Both spiritual power and civil, what each means,
What severs each, thou hast learned, which few have done.
The bounds of either sword to thee we owe:
Therefore on thy firm hand Religion leans
In peace, and reckons thee her eldest son.
poem by John Milton
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I'm running for senator because it's time for a change.
quote by John Sununu
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We are all equal on this floor, and a senator must keep his word.
quote by Mike Mansfield
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I was very productive as a senator for my state.
quote by Carol Moseley Braun
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Senator, we just don't use that kind of language on the floor of the Senate.
quote by Mike Mansfield
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It's tempting, because as one senator said to me, 'We know if we invite baseball down, we'll draw a crowd'.
quote by Fay Vincent
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